Cognitive behaviour therapy

[sadhana13]

Hi.

I have major anxiety..again. I have been able to overcome depression,,, there is no point having bad mood.

Anxiety is something I'm finding difficult to overcome,,, An unknown dread about future, a thinking that everything is going to go bad,, I'm a mad manager of everything in my life.or bad is it bad luck following me everywhere?

I'm agitated now, after talking to my brother. I lost a lucrative job, just because I overlooked submission of a document..
But it is a loss accounting to huge sum of money,time,efforts. He's unhappy over this,, been harsh on me. He has done so much for me.. I feel extremely sad to let him down like this.. i feel awful. Am I destined to get these kind of criticisms all the time? When am i going to make up for all this?

Things have to go straight and smooth. They cannot be on the wrong way all the time.

Be careful for everything, things have to be crosschecked every 2nd time. Please help me.

 

[Into The Light]

i think you could benefit from CBT - there is a lot of "twisted thinking" happening in your post. see http://forum.psychlinks.ca/cbt-cogn...y/1451-the-ten-forms-of-twisted-thinking.html

a therapist could be of help with these feelings. are you seeing one or have you seen one in the past?

 

[Banned]

Hi,.

Things have to go straight.and smooth. They cannot be on the wrong way all the time.

Unfortunately life is rarely straight and smooth. It would be really boring if it was, and we'd learn far less from life experiences. Sometimes, crooked and bumpy provides the best lessons possible.

You may, however, find you need help dealing with crooked and bumpy. That's where a therapist can come in. They can help you develop the skills to cope with the twists and turns life will inevitably throw at you.

Although you say you're no longer depressed, from reading your post, I'm not entirely sure that's true. Again, a skilled therapist can help you work through those feelings to find out what's going on and how to move forward.

 

[BattleBack]

I can't stand this model of therapy. Rational-emotive or cognitive, whatever they're call it now. I'm sorry, but I found it almost entirely useless and it strikes me as an attempt on T's parts to do the least amount of pyschotherapy WORK as possible.

 

[David Baxter PhD]

I can't stand this model of therapy. Rational-emotive or cognitive, whatever they're call it now. I'm sorry, but I found it almost entirely useless and it strikes me as an attempt on T's parts to do the least amount of pyschotherapy WORK as possible.

With all due respect to your personal experiences, that's an unfair characterization both of CBT and of the therapists and clients who use it.

 

[Daniel E.]

Also:

CBT is often misrepresented as an aloof, technical business transaction, but Dr. Beck's responses show that warmth and empathy are central elements of any therapy. She even chides therapists for not being personable and collaborative enough in session.

http://forum.psychlinks.ca/therapy-and-therapists/15893-seven-questions-for-judith-beck.html

Albert Ellis and Rational Emotive Therapy are not synonymous with Cognitve Behavior Therapy. Ellis was, in fact, a bit of a maverick, or at least certainly a rather eccentric-unique-charismatic individual who did his own thing. I can remember as a graduate student watching him (well, actually a film of him in session) and thinking, "none of this would really work for anyone else but Ellis, or at least not in that way, because the effects he is getting are based more on the strength of his personality than on any particular technique".

I would also reiterate that CBT is an effective tool for helping people learn to better manage symptoms and to recognize and alter the links between cognitive distortions and feelings, but I wouldn't expect a competent therapist to have only CBT in his/her toolbox, any more than I would expect that the only tool in the toolbox would be EMDR, or emotion-foused therapy, or any other technique. I think you'll find that most good therapists work within a certain basic framework (for me it is humanism, primarily as epitomized in the work of Carl Rogers, but I also draw on Erikson, Adler, Bandura, parts of Maslow, and even parts of Freud) but ultimately adapt whatever is most likely to work at a particular time and a particular point in therapy with a particular client.

http://forum.psychlinks.ca/depression/330-cognitive-distortions-you-are-what-you-think.html

 

[BattleBack]

Yeah David, I probably shouldn't have even commented. It's an opinion, nothing more and frankly, not particularly important. I agree that it comes off as a broad-sweeping generalization.

I had a T who used this model and he also asked me to buy him drugs. Go figure.

 

[David Baxter PhD]

Yeah David, I probably shouldn't have even commented. It's an opinion, nothing more and frankly, not particularly important. I agree that it comes off as a broad-sweeping generalization.

I had a T who used this model and he also asked me to buy him drugs. Go figure.

Obviously, he was a very poor and very unethical therapist, but of course his incompetence isn't a valid reason for condemning the technique.

 

[BattleBack]

No, it's not.